A 2005 post that is very relevant to a time when the UK runs ’sharia courts’ for family matters, and advocates ’sharia-compliant wills’.
What is being recommended under the cover of â€œMuslim principlesâ€ is, in fact, â€œsharia by stealthâ€ â€” man- made laws that have been erroneously given divine authority and that cannot be debated or amended by any Canadian jurisdiction. Freedom of religion does not mean that we dilute laws and strengthen the power of imams, rabbis and priests over their communities â€” especially the most vulnerable.

â€˜Ethnic politicsâ€™ has become the norm among Canadaâ€™s political parties. â€œThey donâ€™t talk to Canadians. They address themselves to ethnic voting blocs. To Ukrainian Canadians, Italian Canadians, Chinese Canadians, Muslim Canadians, Sikh Canadians.â€ A nation must be based on a sense of belonging, of participating in a common national project, sharing the same values

Tariq Ramadan often says one thing to one group, and something different, or contradictory, elsewhere.
This slipperiness connects with the second issue for the left.
No doubt, given the support Ramadan has on the â€œleftâ€ , there will be further â€œleftâ€ attempts to refute the damning contents of this document. However, it will not be good enough to answer Yves Coleman by producing further quotes from Ramadan.
It just wonâ€™t do to reply to the reactionary statements Ramadan has made on the issue of womenâ€™s rights, for example, by presenting other quotes suggesting he is a liberal on the question (and so implying Ramadan canâ€™t have made the statements cited by Yves Coleman without having to address the quotes directly). Ramadan might well have made both the reactionary and the liberal statements. As Yves Coleman shows, on many issues Ramadan has done exactly that.

Many of us Muslims have been fighting sharia law in Canada for decades. Are we Muslims â€œracistâ€ , Gurratan Singh? Creating ethnic ghettos to secure election victories is racist, not fighting for the separation of religion and state.

Connection between ISIS and Hamas in UK : David Cameroun labels it as the biggest threat to the UK.
The ’right to religion’ and multiculturalism obscured the real problem which is the rise of an extremely reactionary global ’Islamism’.

It’s good to be different’ might be the motto of our times. The celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, avowal of identity politics - these are regarded the hallmarks of a progressive, antiracist outlook. At least in part, the antiracist embrace of difference is fuelled by a hostility to universalism. For most antiracists today, the Enlightenment project of pursuing a rational, scientific understanding of the natural and social world, and of deriving certain universal principles from fragmented experience, is not only a fantasy, but a racist fantasy.